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WOMAN SHOT DEAD AND FOUR INJURED IN SHOOTING

THE bloodiest month of the year ended with another murder last night, the 14th in November, when one woman died and four others were injured in a multiple shooting on Providence Road. And as The Tribune was going to press, another murder was reported, of a man shot on Mackey Street, bringing the total number of killings in the year to 99, according to Tribune records. SEE PAGE SIX

Further warning STUDENTS LEARNING TO SAVE THEIR PENNIES of disruption for customers By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sdorsett@tribunemedia.net  IRATE residents across New Providence were left in darkness on Tuesday night after a “damaged underground cableâ€? caused an island-wide power outage, according to Bahamas Power and Light. And customers were warned yesterday that they may experience “intermittent challenges with their power supply until operations have stabilisedâ€?. Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) Corporate Communications Manager Arnette Ingraham said the company was working on locating the damaged cable

and once repairs are complete “services should return to normal�. On Tuesday night, BPL executives did not offer an explanation for the twohour blackout, but said in a statement on Facebook that the company experienced a “system-wide shut down in New Providence� shortly after 10pm. Around midnight, BPL said power was being restored to communities. Despite the overnight restoration, customers began experiencing outages early yesterday morning and the island suffered another blackout shortly after 1pm, with repeated interruptions throughout the day. SEE PAGE THREE

TURNQUEST: STRANGE END TO DEPUTY PM ROBBERY CASE By SANCHESKA DORSETT Tribune Staff Reporter sdorsett@tribunemedia.net  FREE National Movement Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest yesterday said it is “very unusualâ€? and “curiously strangeâ€? that the attorney general would discontinue prosecuting the two men who were accused of robbing Deputy Prime Minister Phillip Brave Davis at a time when he was acting prime minister. In an interview with The Tribune, Mr Turnquest said the government and the Of-

fice of the Attorney General owe the public a “very clear and transparent� explanation because the case was not an “ordinary� one. On Monday, the two remaining defendants who were awaiting trial in connection with the December 2013 gunpoint robbery of Mr Davis at his home had the case against them withdrawn in the Supreme Court. Tyrone Knowles, 25, and Marc McCartney, 21, SEE PAGE 11

A YOUNGSTER from EP Roberts Primary School holds a piggy bank given to her by the Island Luck Cares Foundation at their ‘Coins for Kids’ initiative. Several piggy banks with money were given out to each student at the school. See page 13 for more. Photo: Shawn Hanna/Tribune Staff

MAN KILLED IN SHOOTOUT DAMES: MULTI-FACETED PLAN NEEDED ON CRIME WITH POLICE OFFICERS By RICARDO WELLS Tribune Staff Reporter rwells@tribunemedia.net

POLICE fatally shot a man during an altercation in the Price Street area of Nassau Village yesterday, as officers attempted to take a “prolific offender� into custody. However, the man who was fatally shot was not the suspect police were originally looking for.

According Assistant Police Commissioner Stephen Dean, the incident occurred yesterday shortly after 1pm when, officers working on information received, went to a home on Peach Street in Nassau Village with intentions of making an arrest. Once on the scene, officers encountered a group of men behind the home, two of whom opened fire on SEE PAGE SIX

By KHRISNA VIRGIL Deputy Chief Reporter kvirgil@tribunemedia.net

FORMER Deputy Commissioner of Police Marvin Dames believes the government has been unable to control violent crime in the country because it is lacking a strategic plan that involves a multifaceted approach to the problem. While the focus should be one that involves pre-

vention and deterrence, enforcement and detection along with rehabilitation and integration, Mr Dames said so far the war on crime has been fought in “silos�. “By focusing on these three components, we can significantly impact crime in our nation,� the Free National Movement’s Mount Moriah candidate said on Monday as a guest on radio SEE PAGE SIX

WEB SHOP BOSSES WARN GOVT OVER ILLEGAL OPERATORS By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net

BETWEEN 20 to 30 per cent of operators in the web shop industry are operating illegally, robbing the government of potential revenue while threatening to mar the efforts that

have been made to legitimatise the industry, web shop bosses say. Their concerns were discussed with key figures within the industry during a private meeting yesterday that marked the culmination of the lengthy process to regularise the industry. Top figures from the seven legal

web shops ate lunch at Graycliff with Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe and the permanent secretaries in the Ministry of Tourism and the Gaming Board. There, they received their official license certificates to operate. SEE PAGE SIX

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